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Writing on Sheep: Ecology, the Animal Turn and Sheep in Poetry

Writing on Sheep: Ecology, the Animal Turn and Sheep in Poetry

Welstead, William

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 1526156571
ISBN13: 9781526156570
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: May 25 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Sheep are marginalised in literary criticism and in discussion of pastoral literature. This book brings an animal studies approach to poetry about sheep that allows for the agency of these sentient beings, that have been associated for humans over ten thousand years. This approach highlights the distinction between wild and domesticated species and the moral dilemma between the goals of animal welfare and those of saving species from extinction. Discussion of mostly contemporary poetry follows a new reading of works from the pastoral and georgic canon. Allowing for the sentience and sociality of this species makes it easier to imagine a natureculture within which to make kin across the species boundary. Reading poetry about sheep has the power to make new meanings as we try to adapt to an increasingly complex and problematic environment.

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